While many say the flip of the calendar from Dec. 1999 to Jan. 2000 is an arbitrary marking of time, it can’t go unnoticed. In this, our first stand-alone January issue, the feature on “New Century of Adhesives” acknowledges the new millennium by quizzing a select group of experts in the adhesives and sealants industry about its future.
But let’s hold a telescope up to post-modern time by checking out what a historian distanced from our industry has to say. Here are some predictions from W. Warren Wagar in the third edition of his “nonfictional fiction” book, A Short History of the Future, University of Chicago Press, 1999.